People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.

Why are you sitting there watching/reading someone else's creation when you can be watching/reading your own creation instead Hustle!

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor the best opportunities they will never come.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

there is not enough interest in life to spread over twenty-four hours when one can't sleep.

I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.